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Song For Gwydion, as you can see from the cover, is a pretty enigmatic and esoteric album, just like the Oggum label, which until recently also had an extremely obscure web presence. This mysteriousness is exceptionally well suited and mood-defining for a record like this, which is full of mesmerising folk ambient, expressed in many different colours, tones and atmospheres.
The first two tracks together form a sort of short intro, with melodies on string instruments, misty drones, bells, flute, electronics, pulses, and whatnot. "Song For Gwydion" is a longer track, with many distinct 'movements', the whole displaying the same plethora of sounds as the first tracks. It would be impossible to describe it all. What's more important is that this synthesis of acoustics and electronics is seamless and very convincing. The same goes for the last track, introduced with field recordings, which is perhaps less varied, but totally engrossing with its trance-like development.
Slightly like the experimental side of In Gowan Ring, but more electronic and otherworldly. Even more like Xenis Emputae Travelling Band, but less familiar and 'earthy'. In any case, despite a slight lack of coherence on this album, this is an excellent release, and worth every penny to lovers of spacy and folky ambient experiments. This album, like few others, really takes you out there, to hidden worlds and spaces, to days long gone, or never to come. Just take a look at the cover again, and even better, buy the release and look at the back cover too. The myths unfold.
O.S.
The first two tracks together form a sort of short intro, with melodies on string instruments, misty drones, bells, flute, electronics, pulses, and whatnot. "Song For Gwydion" is a longer track, with many distinct 'movements', the whole displaying the same plethora of sounds as the first tracks. It would be impossible to describe it all. What's more important is that this synthesis of acoustics and electronics is seamless and very convincing. The same goes for the last track, introduced with field recordings, which is perhaps less varied, but totally engrossing with its trance-like development.
Slightly like the experimental side of In Gowan Ring, but more electronic and otherworldly. Even more like Xenis Emputae Travelling Band, but less familiar and 'earthy'. In any case, despite a slight lack of coherence on this album, this is an excellent release, and worth every penny to lovers of spacy and folky ambient experiments. This album, like few others, really takes you out there, to hidden worlds and spaces, to days long gone, or never to come. Just take a look at the cover again, and even better, buy the release and look at the back cover too. The myths unfold.
O.S.